Lexic.us

Definition of Job

1. Noun. The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money. "He's not in my line of business"

2. Verb. Profit privately from public office and official business.

3. Noun. A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee. "The farmer's morning chores"

4. Verb. Arranged for contracted work to be done by others.

5. Noun. A workplace; as in the expression. "On the job"

6. Verb. Work occasionally. "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"

7. Noun. An object worked on; a result produced by working. "He held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"

8. Verb. Invest at a risk. "I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating"

9. Noun. The responsibility to do something. "It is their job to print the truth"

10. Noun. The performance of a piece of work. "He gave it up as a bad job"

11. Noun. A damaging piece of work. "The barber did a real job on my hair"

12. Noun. A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved. "Urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog"

13. Noun. A Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him.

14. Noun. Any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing.

15. Noun. (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit.

16. Noun. A book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply.

17. Noun. A crime (especially a robbery). "The gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"

Definition of Job

1. n. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.

2. v. t. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.

3. v. i. To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work.

4. n. The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the typical patient man.

Definition of Job

1. Proper noun. (biblical) A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh. ¹

2. Proper noun. (Hebrew male given name) ¹

3. Proper noun. An Old Testament character. ¹

4. Noun. A task. ¹

5. Noun. An economic role for which a person is paid. ¹

6. Noun. (context: in noun compounds) Plastic surgery; ''see e.g.'' nose job. ¹

7. Noun. (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer) ¹

8. Noun. A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall) ¹

9. Verb. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire. ¹

10. Verb. (intransitive) To work as a jobber. ¹

11. Verb. (intransitive professional wrestling slang) To take the loss. ¹

12. Verb. (transitive trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in. ¹

13. Verb. (transitive often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Job

1. to work by the piece [v JOBBED, JOBBING, JOBS]

Medical Definition of Job

1. 1. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab. 2. A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars. 3. A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business. 4. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately. 5. A situation or opportunity of work; as, he lost his job. Job is used adjectively to signify doing jobs, used for jobs, or let on hire to do jobs; as, job printer; job master; job horse; job wagon, etc. By the job, at a stipulated sum for the work, or for each piece of work done; distinguished from time work; as, the house was built by the job. Job lot, a quantity of goods, usually miscellaneous, sold out of the regular course of trade, at a certain price for the whole; as, these articles were included in a job lot. Job master, one who lest out horses and carriages for hire, as for family use. Job printer, one who does miscellaneous printing, especially. Circulars, cards, billheads, etc. Odd job, miscellaneous work of a petty kind; occasional work, of various kinds, or for various people. Origin: Prov. E. Job, gob, a small piece of wood, v, to stab, strike; cf. E. Gob, gobbet; perh. Influenced by E. Chop to cut off, to mince. See Gob. The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the typical patient man. Job's comforter. A false friend; a tactless or malicious person who, under pretense of sympathy, insinuates rebukes. A boil. Job's news, bad news. Job's tears, a kind of grass (Coix Lacryma), with hard, shining, pearly grains. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Job

jizzmopper jizzmoppers jizzum jnana jnanas jnd jo joanna joannas joannes

joanneses joaquinite joaquinites job (current term) job's syndrome job-control language job-hop job-hopper job-hoppers job-oriented terminal

job-sharing job action job aid job application job candidate job center job centers job centre

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